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Courts & crime, 1874

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Officers of the Army and the Police. Extraordinary Charge of Assault

Evening News · Monday 12 January 1874 · page 3

AT the Marlborough-street Police Court, Oct. 30, Lieut.-Colonel James Keith Fraser, Lieutenant Lord A. W. F. Butler, Lieutenant John G. P. Spicer, Lieutenant E. M. Dansey, Lieutenant the Hon. B…

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Police Courts This Day. Water Police Court. (Before the W.P.M., with Messrs. Curran, Williams, and Brown.)

Evening News · Monday 12 January 1874 · page 2

Nine persons were fined for being drunk. John Jacobson was fined 20s for furiously driving a horse attached to a dray in Palmer-street…

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Coroner's Court

Empire · Monday 12 January 1874 · page 2

THE City Coroner held an inquest at his office, Hyde Park, at 9 a.m, on Saturday, on the dead body of a woman nsmed Matilda Smith, lying at the dead-house of the Sydney Infrmary. William…

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The Coonatto Run Murder.—Execution of Ridgway

Evening News · Monday 12 January 1874 · page 3
Also in Empire

THE S. A. Advertiser reports that on New Year's Day, at 8 o'clock, the capital sentence of the Supreme Court was carried into execution upon William Ridgway, who was found guilty on the…

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The Charge of Assault Against the Surgeon of the Chile

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1874 · page 5

The New Zealand journals contain voluminous reports of the evidence taken in the case of assault brought by Mrs. Vesey, a passenger by the ship Chile, against the surgeon of that vessel. A statement of the case, so far as it had…

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Central Police Court. (Before his Worship the Mayor, Captain Scott, P.M., and Messrs. Spence, Wynne, Smart, and Fielder.)

Evening News · Monday 12 January 1874 · page 2

Six persons were fined 5s for drunkenness, nine were fined 10s, and two were fined 20s, each one with the usual alternative of imprisonment. Mary M'Mahon, George Hutchinson, alias Scotia,…

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Centhal Police Court.—saturday. Before the P.M. (Caption Scott), with his Worship the Mayor, and Messers. Smart, Guy, and Cunninghame.)

Empire · Monday 12 January 1874 · page 2

Several persons were fined for drunkenness. John Boyd, charged with wife desertion, was ordered to pay 10s a week for twelve month. Margaret Radmond and Bridget Gardiner were…

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Coroner's Court This Day. Found Dead

Evening News · Monday 12 January 1874 · page 2

The City Coroner resumed the inquest on the body of a mail, found at Bondi, at 9 o'clock this, morning at the Benevolent Asylum, Pitt-street south. No further evidence was adduced, and the…

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Police Negligence or Ignorance. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1874 · page 2

SIR,—It seems that the many thousands of persons who daily pass along or within sight of Darling Harbour, or live on its borders, are allowed to be annoyed by the nuisance of men bathing there in the day time. Surely it cannot be…

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Execution of Ridgway for the Coonatto Murder. (From the South Australian Advertiser, January 2.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1874 · page 5

ON New Year's Day, at about 8 o'clock, the capital sentence of the Supreme Court was carried into execution upon William Ridgway, who was found guilty on the 11th of December last of the murder of Frederick Burt, on the…

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The Affray Between the Police and Officers of the Life Guards. (Times, November 3.)

Empire · Monday 12 January 1874 · page 3
Also in Evening News

THE recent affray between the police and the several officers of the 1st Life Guards has naturally caused a considerable social sensation, but it has still more serious aspects. On a first glance at the…

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The Bathurst Cricketers and Mr. Grace's Team Cobb and Co.'s Conference. Bathurst Half-holiday Association. Dreadful Murder at Pinebong, Liverpool Plains Agricultural Society Cricket at Yass, Melbourne, and Stawell. Wooden Pavements for Melbourne. Mr. Cunneen M.L.A., at Wollombi. the Normanby Copper Mining Company. Supposed Escapade of Communists. the Border Treaty. Remarkable Yield of Wheat at Adelaide. Latest Commercial and Mining, &c., &c., &c., TAMWORTH. Saturday, 6.12 p.m

Evening News · Monday 12 January 1874 · page 2

Robert Webster has been committed for trial for horse-stealing; also a man named Laurence Grady, for a criminal offence upon a girl named Margaret Potter, fourteen years of age, at…

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Central Police Court. Monday. Before the Mayor and the Police Magistrate, with Messrs. Meyer, Murphy, Wynne, Spence, Powell, Smart, and Fielder

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1874 · page 7

Thirty-one persons were fined in sums varying from os. to 20s. for drunkenness, or for riotous or disorderly conduct. Four strangers, charged with drunkenness, were admonished and discharged…

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Water Police Court. Monday. Before the Water Police Mogistrate, with Messrs. Carran, Brown, and Williams

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1874 · page 7

Nine persons charged with drunkenness were fined in the usual penalties. John Jacobson, convicted of furious driving, was fined 20s…

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Police Courts This Day. Water Police Court. (Before the W.P.M., Smith, Mullens Goold, Hunt, and Tait.)

Evening News · Tuesday 13 January 1874 · page 2

William Morrissey was fined 10s or four days, for being drunk and disorderly; and Louis Fakmann was fined in a similar amount for a like offence…

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Coroner's Court

Empire · Tuesday 13 January 1874 · page 2

The City Coroner resumed the inquest on the body of a man, found at Bondi, at 9 o'clock yesterday morning at the Beaovolent Asylum, Pitt-street south. No further evidence was adduced, and the…

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Water Police Court—monday. (Before the W.P.M., with Messrs. Curran, Williams, and Brown.)

Empire · Tuesday 13 January 1874 · page 2

Nine persons were fined for being drunk. John Jacobson was fined 20s for furiously driving a horse attached to a dray in Palmerstreet…

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Insolvency Court. Meetings of Creditors

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1874 · page 7

Wednesday, January 14, at ll a.m.—Before the District Commissioner:William Crieighton, first and only meeting, at Grafton; William Stay, first and only meeting, at Grafton. Thursday January 15, at ll a.m.—Before the restrict…

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